The United States is not the only country in the world that is facing energy problems and unreliable, outdated, and problematic systems. Other countries are facing the same issues. Each country has its own vision of what a real "smart grid" is, and every country has a different time frame in mind for implementing these visions. China and India are already moving to "the next generation of networks and generation sources" (LaMonica 2007). Other...more
11th position in terms of Market Cap & Performance; 5th biggest sustainable value creator. Reliance Industries (RIL), the countrys largest company by market capitalisation, has been ranked among the top 25 global companies which outperformed peers in the midst of the global economic slowdown this year, according to an AT Kearney study. RIL, which recently completed two world-class projects, a new refinery at Jamnagar and the gas project in the...more
Today's global online market is like to a teenage male jock....agile, muscular, getting smarter but still with room to grow. It's in this evolving environment that big opportunities to profit exist. For those new to ecommerce and the global online market, the barriers are numerous as are the challenges. A word about barriers and competing to win in the global online market: Randy Pausch! Who is Randy Pausch? Dr. Pausch was a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. Sadly, he died in 2008 from pancreatic cancer, leaving his wife and three young children behind. Prior to his death, Dr. Pausch delivered a famous final lecture to a packed auditorium at his university. His lecture is now a best seller under the title, The Last Lecture. In it, he makes many great comments about life and the challenges we all face. Two of the more powerful comments he makes are: *"Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want something." *"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." Reflect back on when you had to compete against someone that intimidated you. Maybe it was a great pitcher you knew...more
Data generally represent the information and can be defined with numbers or alphabetical symbols. Data entry can be determined as process that converts data from one form to another one. Such solutions usually includes almost all business fields and professional services, such as data conversion, offline data entry work, data processing, image...more
The main concern of all businessmen is to reach their businesses to a further level from where it stands today and this is something for which small businesses are always concerned about. Nowadays one of the most effective tools for carrying on promotional activities is internet. Marketing through online has recently gained more...more
Market analyst firm Strategy Analytics forecast report released "Global Broadband Market Forecast Update." The report's authors Ben Piper, said: "It is clear that the future of broadband technology will be the leading optical fiber. XDSL telecom operator's existing infrastructure is towards the end of its effective life cycle. Soon, xDSL will be unable to support the need for higher bandwidth consumer applications. " The latest rankings released by Strategy Analytics show that optical penetration rate ranks the world's top 10 markets, eight are in Asia and Eastern Europe. To the end of 2009, South Korea 51% of households will have fiber to the home as the world's highest penetration rate of fiber to the home market. Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Lithuania will be out in the global market, ranking second to fifth place. Strategy Analytics predicts that by 2013, Singapore will replace South Korea ranked first in the world. Singapore government implemented "iN2015" part of the plan is for the installation speed of 1Gbps FTTH (Fiber-to-the-Premises - FTTP) network, the network rollout is currently being implemented; Singapore Government has stipulated that by 2013 a On 1, the network...more
The idea seems simple enough. The rich world would pay the poor world tosave a type of natural commodity from which we all benefit trees.Forests and jungles absorb carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, whichis stored in trees. Cutting trees down...more
Aquecimento global: fenômeno natural ou efeito da atividade humana? Por Vinicius Carvalho da Silva Niels Bohr, em Física Atômica e conhecimento humano dá vários indícios que o conceito de complementaridade da...more
Internet marketing services have far-reaching impact during recession. The cost factor alone is driving the Internet marketing trend forward. With the increasing popularity of Internet as social media, online marketing services are likely to witness...more
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The Monaco Grand Prix is one of the oldest circuits on the Formula One calendar and first hosted racing in 1929 when William Grover Williams took a Bugatti 35B to victory round the streets of the principality. It hosted the second-ever Formula One...more
As they say, there are good and there are bad times; and well, these are bad times, as the government goes bonkers with its austerity drive, to show its solidarity to the farmer suicides, and the aam admi brigade jumping into the bandwagon without...more